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Ferruccio Busoni

p, 1866-1924 IT, Empoli
Musician / Composer / Conductor of Classical
A.k.a. Dante Michelangelo Benvenuto Ferruccio Busoni

Ferruccio Busoni (1 April 1866 – 27 July 1924) (given names: Ferruccio Dante Michelangiolo Benvenuto) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and piano teacher. He was born in Empoli, the son of professional musicians. Initially trained by his father, he later studied at the Vienna Conservatory and then with Wilhelm Mayer and Carl Reinecke. In the ensuing years, he devoted himself to composing, teaching, and touring as a virtuoso pianist in Europe and the United States. He settled in Berlin in 1894 but spent the years of World War I in Italy and Switzerland. Busoni died in Berlin at the age of 58. In addition to piano, instrumental and orchesteral works, he also composed four operas, the best known of which, Doktor Faust, was left unfinished at the time of his death.

Genres

• Classical
• Soundtrack